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author | Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com> | 2013-06-21 03:18:32 -0400 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2013-06-24 03:26:26 -0400 |
commit | a3c910d2e796ce878231350b904105261a8cf09c (patch) | |
tree | 5464f7c1e3b04d799b42baa9c58f78d8346cb785 /Documentation/networking | |
parent | 4eb313a7a939a983c525648227b5fe0a9d41679f (diff) |
tcp: doc : fix the syncookies default value
syncookies is on for default since in commit e994b7c901
(tcp: Don't make syn cookies initial setting depend on CONFIG_SYSCTL).
And fix a typo of CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES.
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index f98ca633b528..3458d6343e01 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | |||
@@ -420,10 +420,10 @@ tcp_synack_retries - INTEGER | |||
420 | for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds. | 420 | for a passive TCP connection will happen after 63seconds. |
421 | 421 | ||
422 | tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN | 422 | tcp_syncookies - BOOLEAN |
423 | Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYNCOOKIES | 423 | Only valid when the kernel was compiled with CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES |
424 | Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket | 424 | Send out syncookies when the syn backlog queue of a socket |
425 | overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack' | 425 | overflows. This is to prevent against the common 'SYN flood attack' |
426 | Default: FALSE | 426 | Default: 1 |
427 | 427 | ||
428 | Note, that syncookies is fallback facility. | 428 | Note, that syncookies is fallback facility. |
429 | It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand | 429 | It MUST NOT be used to help highly loaded servers to stand |